Biotechnology & medicine
Frank Lyko
Aims to reprogram cancer cells to be more like normal cells by developing compounds that block the aberrant modification of DNA in cancer cells.
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Lei Wang
Expanded the genetic code in order to allow living cells to incorporate new, unnatural building blocks into the proteins that they make.
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Olga Troyanskaya
Devised sophisticated and accurate computer algorithms for analyzing data generated using DNA microarrays.
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Colin Hill
Aims to more than double human trials success rate by virtually prescreening drugs in computer models of human cells.
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Vasilis Ntziachristos
Facilitated noninvasive optical imaging of proteins and other molecules in the body, which could lead to ultraprecise diagnosis of cancer and other diseases.